The Blue Exorcist: The Illuminati Explained

Key conclusions

• The Illuminati, led by Lucifer, aim to resurrect Satan for world unity and peace.
• Lucifer searches for the perfect vessel for Satan, creating clones and the elixir of immortality.
• The headquarters of the Illuminati is a camouflaged airship that conducts experiments to revive Satan and create a new world.

The Illuminati presence is much more significant than what was first seen in Season 3. With Lucifer, the King of Light, as commander, the Illuminati entered human experimentation to create the perfect vessel for Lucifer and Satan.

While Lucifer seeks to create the perfect vessel for his father, Satan, he also seeks to bring Asia and Gehenna together to rid the world of suffering and create true peace. However, there is more to the Illuminati than meets the eye. Learn more about the Illuminati at Blue Exorcist.

What is the Illuminati?

With Lucifer as commander-in-chief, they plan to restore the world

The Illuminati is a powerful organization that seeks to resurrect the Demon God, Satan. The King of Light, Lucifer, is the leader of the Illuminati and the driving force behind Satan's revival. Although the Illuminati plan to resurrect Satan, this is not their only goal.

In the first stage, the Illuminati declared war on the Order of the Knights of the True Cross. A year after its first public appearance, the Illuminati plans to resurrect Satan. The reason the Illuminati want to revive Satan is to unite the divided Asia and Gehenna. In The Blue Exorcist, the world of humans is called Asia, and the world of demons is Gehenna.

Demons can enter Assiah or the human world, possessing those within it. However, the demon must be compatible with its host. The more powerful the demon, the higher the compatibility required. The Illuminati, or Lucifer, want to return to the original state where light and darkness were born. By doing this, all will be equal and free from suffering and thus the world will be peaceful.

We have to create everything anew. After all, this is the mission of the Illuminati.

As mentioned earlier, the Illuminati is a powerful organization. Before the Illuminati revealed themselves to the Knights of the True Cross, they were first known as the Bright Future Foundation. This foundation will recruit members from powerful families to join the Illuminati with the Foundation as a front.

In preparation for the revival of Satan, the Illuminati, under the guise of the Foundation, established the Far Eastern Laboratory located in Inari. In this facility, experiments were conducted on people visiting Fox Alley, a tourist destination with restaurants and other food vendors. However, those who indulged in the food here would become addicted and thus live in Inari's Peaceful City, a building built to house those who had been experimented on.

The purpose of these experiments was to create an elixir of immortality. The first attempt of this elixir was to support Lucifer's broken body, and the second was to create a survivable body possessed by Satan.

Where is the illuminati headquarters?

In a huge airship, the Illuminati can avoid detection

The Illuminati's main headquarters is Dominus Liminis, a magically camouflaged air carrier that is the hub for all of its magical scientific research. In the airship, the Illuminati's main focus is on developing scientifically and technologically advanced weapons and armor.

The airship also houses Lucifer's perfect clones, which are perfect bodies that Lucifer can shut down and replace if they go bad. Lucifer's search for his perfect human body first began during his time in Chapter 13. During this time, Lucifer and many of his siblings, the Eight Demon Kings, sought a human body in Asia to resist their possession – however, the more powerful the demon, the harder it is. the search for their ideal body. This is also why Satan could not possess a person for a long time when he tried to enter Assiah.

Has the Illuminati achieved this goal?

The Illuminati have revived Satan, but they have not yet restored the world

In Chapter 110, Lucifer reveals to Yukio that the Illuminati have successfully created perfect clones of him that he can easily switch into when his body is corrupted. However, these clones are just replacements and quick fixes with elixirs. As mentioned above, the goal of the Illuminati is to resurrect Satan and unite Asia and Gehenna. In order to revive Satan, he needed to have a perfect body and an elixir to serve as an immortality serum.

The Illuminati continued their research into elixirs, conducting experiments on Dominus Liminis. They have since completed their research and thus created the completed elixir during the last experiment. The process of creating Satan's perfect body has already been completed in the ground laboratory of the Illuminati, the KRC laboratory in Romania.

The final process was the last elixir-making experiment that took place on Dominus Liminis. To complete the experiment, the Illuminati needed three demon eaters called the Chosen Ones. These Demon Eaters, which housed Ourobaros, Phoenix, and Hydra, were then placed in a distillation furnace that separated the demons from the Chosen and carbonized them. Thus Lucifer created one drop of the finished elixir, and thus Satan was reborn in Chapter 129.

What does the Illuminati have to do with Chapter 13?

Chapter 13 is what gave Lucifer the desire to continue his cloning experiments

The production of ideal bodies for the eight demon kings began with Section 13. Section 13 was a restricted area with a refuge in the True Cross Academy under the True Cross Knights Order. It was first established to prolong Lucifer's life, as no human body could withstand the possession of such a powerful demon.

The Asylum mass-produced clones of the eight Demon Kings to find him the perfect match. They used the DNA of Samuel, or Mephisto Pheles and Azazel, to create clones. At that time, Lucifer was reaching his end, as the body he possessed was rapidly decaying. As a last resort Lucifer was going to destroy the world and that way everyone would return to an equal world without suffering.

To prevent this from happening, Mephisto Pheles devised a plan to create a clone and relieve Lucifer's pain. This is how he created Chapter 13 with the asylum as a front. However, creating clones wasn't enough to ease Lucifer's pain, so they had to research the elixir as well.

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